I am writing a C library that reads a file into memory. It skips the first 54 bytes of the file (header) and then reads the remainder as data. I use fseek to determine the length of the file, and then use fread to read in the file.

The loop runs once and then ends because the EOF is reached (no errors). At the end, bytesRead = 10624, ftell(stream) = 28726, and the buffer contains 28726 values. I expect fread to read 30,000 bytes and the file position to be 30054 when EOF is reached.

C is not my native language so I suspect I've got a dumb beginner mistake somewhere.